Sunday, February 04, 2007

Proposal: Wealth beyond measure II

Each Actor has a Wealth number tracked in the GNDT. Wealth is measured in X units.

All comments containing For votes should also contain a nomination for the unit. The nomination that is mentioned most will replace “X units” when this Proposal is enacted. If there is a tie, the winner is decided at the discretion of the Investor.We can add salaries, movie jobs and other wealth-related things later. This creates a good and realistic framework.

Currency makes perfect sense for a Hollywood-genre game. In the real Hollywood, there are several ways of keeping score: how much money you have, what’s your asking price for your next picture, how many awards or nominations you have, who you’re banging, and how quickly can you get a table at Spago.

I’m fine with money as long as it is not the ultimate goal. Actors who move to Hollywood are generally extremely poor, and they would have to work a job on top of auditioning for bum rolls to try to make the rent check every month. Money won’t help make you a star really, but it would help you survive.

You have incurred my wrath for arbritrarily trying to disallow those of us who vote from having a say in the naming of the currency. Fortunately (as I assume that Excalabur noticed), you do not require the comments to contain _counted_ FOR votes. I nominate “Spam” for the unit of currency.

The leader of the pack for currency names is “megabucks”, with 4. Next, we have Pounds Sterling, with 3 (that’s my nomination). I’m not counting “spam”, because that’s dumb and doesn’t come from people who voted “for”.

If you don’t want it to happen at all, what’s the point of your voting on what to call it? “I don’t want it to happen, but if it does happen, I want it to happen this way.” Sort of weakens your position, doesn’t it?

Actually by the definition of the rules a vote is any vote at all. It is just not counted if there is a more recent one. Since we have not been limited here to counted for votes, I think that this is valid

Okay, seriously, people stop posting multiple comments or comments with a non-counted For vote. I think you could make a case for these people being called trolls—they’re clogging up a vote by voting multiple times and making joke nominations for currency name.

Uh, I’m not sure that that’s entirely fair, alethiophile - they’re performing a valid game action, and this game in particular has a long history of exploiting unintended consequences of hastily written proposals / rules. Furthermore, I think that Grasshopper and Chronos both have a substantial enough play history to make accusations of trollishness faintly absurd. If you don’t like their joke - and admittedly it’s lost some of its charm for me, too - then simply self-kill it and re-propose it, with tighter wording.

"Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move. In that respect it differs from almost every other game. The primary activity of Nomic is proposing changes in the rules, debating the wisdom of changing them in that way, voting on the changes, deciding what can and cannot be done afterwards, and doing it. Even this core of the game, of course, can be changed."